Section Info: SPAN-240RE-01

Course Title: Visual Cultures, An Introduction: 'Representations of Labor in Latin American Cinema'
Start Date: 09/03/2025 End Date: 12/16/2025
Term: Fall Semester 2025
Description: How do labor relationships and the social construction of what work means affect our lives as well as our communities? How do they contribute to shape our identities? In which ways can our gender, sexual orientation, race, social class or migratory status define our working possibilities? How do the concepts of marginality and informality emerge to identify the precarious Latin American labor conditions? How do labor conditions interact with political and social events? Through Latin American films and short stories, students will problematize the idea of service, worker, industry, classic and non-classic work, sexual and affective work, and child labor, among others.
Distribution(s): I - Humanities , LANG - Language , MP - Multicultural Perspectives , SI - Speaking-Intensive , WI - Writing-Intensive , TP - Topics Course
Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate     Credits:4.00    

Faculty         Phone         Email address        
Adriana Pitetta             apitetta@mtholyoke.edu  

Meeting Dates         Method         Meeting days         Meeting times         Building name         Room     Frequency    
09/03/2025 - 12/16/2025   Lecture   Tuesday and Thursday   10:30AM - 11:45AM   TBA   TBA   Weekly

REGISTRATION DETAILS

Requisite Courses        
Prereq: SPAN-212. Take previously   Required  

Comments        
Additional Comments        
Taught in Spanish.  
Course Tags        
LATAM0001   LATAM: Latin American Studies minor   This course has been approved to count towards the Latin American Studies major and/or minor.  

Cross-listed Sections        
SPAN-240RE-01 Labor in Latin Amer. Cinema  
FMT-230RE-01 Labor in Latin Amer. Cinema  
GNDST-204RE-01 Labor in Latin Amer. Cinema  

Course Availability
Section status: Waitlisted     Capacity: 16     Enrollment: 15     Available: 0     Waitlist: 5
Please note: The "Available" count will equal 0 in a Waitlisted course where spaces in the course have recently opened and students have not yet been moved into them from the waitlist.

BOOK INFORMATION

Book List         Required         Publisher Full Price        
To be determined.                    

Additional Book Comments        
This is NOT the complete book list for this class.